This Budget is a gallon of gruel – Richard Tice

16 MARCH 2023 | OPINION Spin, bluster, sound and noise always rage around any Budget. Do you get that strange feeling of having heard all...

ROUND-UP: From Pol Roger to White Lightning – how migrant hotels...

26 AUGUST 2025 | OPINION August was sold as a vintage for Westminster: migrant hotels closing, Lucy Connolly finally silenced, and Trump’s Alaska summit setting...

Muddy waters – PMQs 26th February 2025

26 FEBRUARY 2025 | OPINION Starmer is turning into a doubleplusgood duckspeaker. Ask him an awkward question, get a torrent of whataboutery quacking. Mr Speaker set him...

Public consent would be endangered by Boris’ four-week delay if the...

15 June 2021 | OPINION On February 22nd, when the UK faced almost 10,000 Covid cases per day and had administered less than 18 million...

Angie rides out – PMQs 23rd October 2024

23 OCTOBER 2024 | OPINION Angela Rayner fielded the questions today. Facing her for the Opposition was Sir Oliver Dowden, on his last PMQs stint...

Fog of war: PMQs & ‘Spring Statement’ 26th March 2025

26 MARCH 2025 | OPINION The PM "is not answering the question about discipline in schools … did not answer the question about compensating...

The Decline and Fall: PMQs 7th January 2026

8 JANUARY 2026 | OPINION A keynote of the modern British Left is arrogance. We see this with PMQs. Blair (so busy) cut their frequency to...

Not so Lammentable? – PMQs 5th November 2025

5 NOVEMBER 2025 | OPINION The commentariat are lammbasting Deputy PM David Lammy for his allegedly calammitous performance at PMQs. However, they need to look...

Boris must stop with his attempts at authoritarian coercion – Zeena...

2 August 2021 | OPINION Over the past week or so, the Government – in an attempt to encourage younger people to get their...

February 2026: Nation in a State

10 MARCH 2026 | OPINION First things first, my apologies. You’re reading this so far into March now, though the amount that happened in 28...